Common Core State Standards Content Area: English Grade Level: Grade 11-12 Domain: Reading - Literature Cluster: Key Ideas and Details, Craft and Structure Standards: 2. Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text. 4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including words with multiple meanings or language that is particularly fresh, engaging, or beautiful. 5. Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text (e.g. the choice of where to begin or end a story, the choice to provide a comedic or tragic resolution) contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact.
What understandings are desired?
Students will understand that:(U)
•Novels have specific themes that are developed in various ways throughout the text.
•Literature is heavily influenced by its language and cultural setting.
•Autobiographical elements of a novel have strong implications for its plot and characters.
What essential questions will be considered?
Essential Questions:(Q)
•How does Fitzgerald reveal the themes of the novel?
•Why did Fitzgerald use the specific language and cultural setting of the novel?
•How is the text autobiographical, and how does this affect the plot, characters, etc?
What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?
•Derive meaning from the language of the text and its cultural background.
•Evaluate themes of the novel and their application to real-life situations.
•Exhibit their knowledge of cultural movements and language styles.
•Infer themes of the novel from plot and character development.
•Consider the ways that the autobiographical elements of the text influenced its plot, characters, etc.
•Reflect on Fitzgerald's autobiographical connections to his text and examine their own lives in return.
Stage 1 - Identify Desired Results
Content Area: English
Grade Level: Grade 11-12
Domain: Reading - Literature
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details, Craft and Structure
Standards: 2. Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.
4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including words with multiple meanings or language that is particularly fresh, engaging, or beautiful.
5. Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text (e.g. the choice of where to begin or end a story, the choice to provide a comedic or tragic resolution) contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact.
What understandings are desired?
•Literature is heavily influenced by its language and cultural setting.
•Autobiographical elements of a novel have strong implications for its plot and characters.
What essential questions will be considered?
•Why did Fitzgerald use the specific language and cultural setting of the novel?
•How is the text autobiographical, and how does this affect the plot, characters, etc?
What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?
(excess, greed, downward spiral, mental illness, psychiatry)
•cultural implications
(Jazz Age, prohibition, expatriate, Great Depression, literary movements)
•critical details
(characters, relationships, autobiographical details, Zelda Fitzgerald, expatriate circle)
•Evaluate themes of the novel and their application to real-life situations.
•Exhibit their knowledge of cultural movements and language styles.
•Infer themes of the novel from plot and character development.
•Consider the ways that the autobiographical elements of the text influenced its plot, characters, etc.
•Reflect on Fitzgerald's autobiographical connections to his text and examine their own lives in return.
2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe.